As the academic leader and head of the department, he always organically combines the cultivation of students' personality quality, moral quality and academic quality, permeates the advanced concepts and methods of national postgraduate cultivation into regular cultivation, strictly demands students, and reflects teachers' care for students in the specific cultivation process.
Professor Zhou Ping is famous for being strict with his students. Whether undergraduate, master or doctoral students, he requires them to "respect academics and strive for innovation", which runs through every specific link of academic guidance and scientific research guidance, paying special attention to the combination of classroom teaching, scientific research training and academic research, and meticulously carrying out strict academic training for students.
Professor Zhou also often shows concern for students in the details of life. Students have ideological problems, and he talks to them seriously; When he was in trouble in life, he gave him help. Dr. Jikai still remembers that when he saw his thin clothes, Professor Zhou immediately gave him his new clothes. "He has fatherly care for his students!" This is how Jikai felt in those days. In fact, he is not the only student who has been helped by Professor Zhou Ping! He often talks with students about learning and being a man with his own life experience and feelings, and guides students to face society, life and career correctly with the deep care and love of an elder for the younger generation.
The disciples trained by Professor Zhou are already full of peaches and plums. So far, he has taught more than 65,438+0,000 undergraduates, and supervised more than 60 master students and 23 doctoral students. Among the graduates, there are already many talents, including academic talents, famous scholars and leading cadres. His students He won the second prize in the 9th National Challenge Cup, Liao won the first prize in the 11th National Challenge Cup, Zhang Jian and Lu Haifa won the excellent master thesis award in Yunnan Province, Wang Chuanfa won the excellent doctoral thesis award in Yunnan Province and the first prize for outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences in Yunnan Province. Fang Shengju made his mark in the national political science and administrative circles, and served as the vice president of the School of Management of Yunnan University. A group of students are leaders at the prefectural level, and another group are leaders at the provincial and ministerial levels.
Professor Zhou Ping attaches great importance to the training of students and the reform of talent training mode. In 2000, he was awarded the project "New Century Higher Education Teaching Reform Project" by the Ministry of Education "Research and Practice on Comprehensive Reform of Training Mode of Political and Legal Management Talents in the Western Region" (this is one of the only two major projects of political and legal education reform in China), and took the lead in reforming the training mode of political and legal management talents in the western region.
Based on the fact that he is located in the western and frontier multi-ethnic areas, he took the lead in offering ethnic politics courses to undergraduates, and then initiated master's and doctoral programs in ethnic politics, and established a training system for ethnic political talents from undergraduate characteristic courses and directions to master's and doctoral programs. Subsequently, many colleges and universities have set up ethnic politics disciplines, courses and master's and doctoral programs in ethnic politics. The textbook "Ethnic Politics" used in these schools was compiled by Professor Zhou. The successful establishment of ethnic politics with the characteristics of interdisciplinary and emerging disciplines has further expanded the research field of political science, enriched the connotation of political science and provided new growth points for the development of political science. Many experts spoke highly of the work done by Professor Zhou Ping and his team in establishing the discipline of ethnic politics and the personnel training system.
Professor Zhou Ping's project "Creation and Practice of Ethnic Politics Discipline and Talent Training System" won the special prize of teaching achievement in Yunnan Province and the second prize of national teaching achievement in 2009. The "Teaching Team of Basic Platform of Political Science and Public Administration" led by him was awarded the national teaching team in 2008, and the political science and administration in charge was awarded the national first-class specialty in 20 10.